Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.